meaning of servile
1. Of or pertaining to a servant or slave; befitting a servant or a slave; proceeding from dependence; hence, meanly submissive; slavish; mean; cringing; fawning; as, servile flattery; servile fear; servile obedience.
2. Held in subjection; dependent; enslaved.
3. Not belonging to the original root; as, a servile letter.
4. Not itself sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceeding vowel, as e in tune.
5. An element which forms no part of the original root; -- opposed to radical.
6. submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior; "spoke in a servile tone"; "the incurably servile housekeeper"; "servile tasks such as floor scrubbing and barn
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Related Words
servile | servilely | servileness |
